Language:
German
Year of publication:
1986
Titel der Quelle:
Juden in der deutschen Literatur
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1986) 179-193
Keywords:
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim,
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Antisemitism in literature
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German literature History and criticism
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Jews in literature
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Judaism in literature
Abstract:
A lecture delivered at a symposium in Jerusalem, fall 1983. The Gotthold Ephraim Lessing commemoration of 1879 (100 years since "Nathan the Wise" and 150 years since Lessing's birth) was closely connected with the founding of the German Antisemiten-Liga in the same year. One of the founders, Wilhelm Marr, reinterpreted Lessing's ideas in order to prove that he was opposed to Jewish emancipation and had not been a friend of the Jews.
Note:
Appeared as "'Lessing contra Sem': Antisemitismus zwischen Religion und Rasse" in his "Deutsch-jüdische Vergangenheit" (2005) 101-111.
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